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1980s, combined with crisis in the public education system led to plummeting rates of African American college enrollment in the e...

an emphasis on more practical learning in higher education (Boyce, 2003). Du Bois would focus on the importance of knowledge inclu...

depictions of Black women that hide their face, their central visual identity. This is the basis through which Simpson creates a ...

both computer systems and the Internet on the rise. Though South Africa is considered the "leader" in such a field, Kenya is defin...

quo (Ruddell and Urbina, 2004). In his analysis of the history of incarceration in the US, Vogel (2003) charts a relationship be...

gained in a variety of ways, but most knowledge of that type is obvious and straightforward. One of the enduring purposes of high...

this poem is that of the universal anguish of being bound and imprisoned, no matter what the age. And, in a very real sense he is ...

gender. In fact, according to what Ms. Jacobs writes, women were discriminated against by white and black men alike. Here, though...

became something other than a free society. The slaves true story, then, lies in his humane triumph over tyranny" (Huggins lxxi)....

problems include adolescent pregnancy and out-of-wedlock births, poor maternal/infant care, problems with disease control and sexu...

an adolescent and grown adult. His elementary and middle school years were full of academic lessons, caring for his siblings and ...

diversity in the police department in a town with a combined minority rate close to 50 percent continues to plague city officials,...

works signed by a famous artist. Rather, the visitor is exposed to the artifacts that suggest what life was and is like to African...

in the nation. Unlike groups that came over with money, Africans came without even clothes on their backs. They were chained and s...

Me" Hurston writes, "I remember the very day I became colored...But I am not tragically colored. Someone is always at my elbow rem...

the subsequent verdict has divided New Yorkers. Since the young, Haitian immigrant was riddled with bullets by police, there have ...

is retained and that African Americans are able to live in the world in peace. Yet, historically, peace is not always something th...

black women, from their perspective, was racism, not sexism. Hooks relates that her students often asked her such questions as "Ha...

ultimately gave rise to modern-day sameness when it comes to childrearing. Particularly evident of this is how attitudes of...

walls (Books, 1998). Different constructs determine children who are useful and those who are not as well as those who are used (B...

As the war raged on, black cotton farmers were looking forward to a Northern victory, which would ultimately give them their freed...

gross exploitation of African slaves. That Leopold was wholly capable of stuffing his incoming ships with an abundance of ivory a...

in order to claim her white heritage she would essentially have to have her mother along to prove she was also Caucasian (Hubbynet...

social consciousness. One of Douglass first discoveries, or one of the most important first discoveries, he made was that of the...

societal scheme. This poem is a direct assault and repudiation of this stereotypical image of blacks, as it presents African Ameri...

how even liberals of the North were surprised, if not appalled, at such a union. In essence, what this film presents us with is a ...

National Womens Health Information Center, 1998). Findings from a recent National Cancer Institute study noted how African Americ...

Truth went to bat for every woman when she spoke before a crowd of hostile white people at the 1851 Ohio Womens Rights Convention,...

age of nine (2003). Hence, even his childhood was entrenched in religion and preaching. That said, he did pursue other interests w...

illustrate the points they make. Larue himself is a preacher and scholar who is an associate professor of homiletics at Princeton ...